The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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